A nice piece on the use of hyperbole:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... inguistics
To carry the idea of expansion further, when will the US start having a Hyper Bowl in football?
On Hyperbole
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Re: On Hyperbole
I always thought of those men along the Hudson clouds rolling their hyperbowling balls to create thunder.
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